Are you looking for a unique gift to give someone this Valentine's Day? Turn to chocolate-dipped Chinese fortune cookies as a way to express your love to your significant other. You can either purchase the cookies online or make your own at home using a full recipe. Another alternative to baking them is to purchase the cookies at a Chinese restaurant or at a store and then dipping them in microwave-melted chocolate at home. Pen your own loving fortune and add it to the cookie for a personalized touch.

Online websites such as fancyfortunecookies.com offer a wide selection of homemade fortune cookies for you to choose from. The fortune cookies cost $1.25 each for different flavors that include chocolate-covered cherry, cappuccino, raspberry, strawberry, coconut, cinnamon and vanilla. The company requires seven days to make the fortune cookies along with the additional time needed to ship the item to your home or business. You can select different shipping options unless weather conditions are factoring into the delivery of the cookies.

Another option, if you prefer to bake your own cookies, is to prepare them yourselves. The hardest part to making your own is folding them for the proper fortune cookie shape just after you've taken them out of the oven. The best advice I can give you is to work as quickly as possible to get your cookies folded with the message placed between the folds. The chocolate-covered fortune cookie recipe at wikihow.com goes in-depth to explain the baking process. For a faster alternative to preparing your own fortune cookies, consider purchasing them already made at either a grocery store or a Chinese restaurant and then melting the chocolate for dipping once you get home. Either way, whether you buy the fortune cookies or prepare them yourself, you have a creative gift on hand to say “I love you.”